novelraw Chapter 65 : As Long As I Am Alive, It Is a Hundred Percent
Chapter 65 : As Long As I Am Alive, It Is a Hundred Percent
Chapter 65: As Long As I Am Alive, It Is a Hundred Percent
“Get back!”
Lu Changyuan forcefully pulled Xia Lianxue behind him.
Xia Lianxue was still in tears, but soon regained her senses, as if she wanted to use the Time Technique to reverse his figure back.
But the lightning had already arrived.
The blood-colored lightning was as thick as a heavenly pillar, tearing through the skies with a deafening roar that silenced all things.
It condensed into a tangible, majestic heavenly might, carrying the aura of annihilation as it descended straight down.
The surrounding space was ripped apart, scorched into blackness.
“Brother Lu!”
The entire firmament seemed to be collapsing.
With just the first strike of the annihilating blood lightning, the surroundings were nearly turned into a hell on earth.
Lu Changyuan propped himself up with Severed Thought in one hand.
The thunder roared endlessly in his ears, and before his eyes, there remained only the blood-colored lightning.
And this was just the first strike, yet it already carried the power of the Sixth Realm.
Lu Changyuan’s flesh tore open all over his body, blood soaking his dark robes.
Xia Lianxue wanted to rush forward to support Lu Changyuan, but then suddenly realized—the tribulation lightning was meant for her.
As long as she did not die, the lightning would not disperse.
Not only would it not disperse, but each strike would only become stronger than the last.
Heaven’s Dao was ruthless and violent, determined to utterly obliterate those who defied it.
Lu Changyuan coughed up a mouthful of blood: “This is the first time you’ve disobeyed me.”
“Brother Lu!”
Lu Changyuan wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.
A strange intent slowly rose within him.
Looking up at the sky, he suddenly thought the moon before sunrise looked beautiful.
“With me, all will be well.”
He narrowed his eyes, just about to act—when suddenly, he stopped.
Rumble.
The second strike of lightning arrived in an instant, yet it did not strike Lu Changyuan nor Xia Lianxue.
Instead, it destroyed a palace of Jade Palace not far away.
What happened?
Heaven’s Dao... had been obscured?
Lu Changyuan turned around, looking at the figure approaching swiftly through the wind.
Xia Lianxue also sensed this, hurriedly stepping forward to support Lu Changyuan. Her tears would not stop falling. She choked: “Brother Lu... Brother Lu.”
The fairy’s flowing hair brushed against Lu Changyuan, quickly stained with his blood.
Ripples of the Time Technique appeared on Lu Changyuan, his wounds healing rapidly.
“Good thing I wasn’t too late.”
Someone flew over from not far away.
Xia Lianxue held onto Lu Changyuan, but her expression was full of shock: “Master?”
The phantom shook its head: “I am not Palace Mistress Feng Xianlong, only a trace of thought.”
In the heavens, a star suddenly lit up again.
Looking closely, it was a star that had long since gone dark.
It was Feng Xianlong’s Dao of Fate Calculation, capable of concealing the heavenly secrets and causing the tribulation to temporarily lose track of Xia Lianxue’s position.
The phantom said: “I can conceal the tribulation for you for three days. This is the Palace Mistress’s Dao inheritance. After three days, the Dao star of the Palace Mistress will shatter completely.”
Xia Lianxue froze.
She had never thought her master would prepare for this step.
The phantom continued: “The Palace Mistress was against you being with him from the beginning. He is a calamity!”
Lu Changyuan did not know what expression to show this phantom.
Neither did Xia Lianxue.
Both of them had beaten Feng Xianlong back in the day.
Lu Changyuan thought, no wonder when they had hit Feng Xianlong, her expression had been so strange. So this was the hidden reason.
The phantom sighed, looking at Xia Lianxue with the gaze of an elder upon a little fairy: “The Palace Mistress could not calculate your fate back then, but she did calculate that her daughter would inevitably become entangled with you. Thus she left me behind, partly to look after Yuehan, and partly to look after you.”
Lu Changyuan suddenly said: “Did you deliberately come late, so I would take the first strike of lightning?”
The phantom said nothing.
The atmosphere grew heavy.
After a while.
The phantom did not answer Lu Changyuan’s question, only said: “There are only three days. But after three days, the tribulation will still find Tang’er. This time, it will not rest until death, so...”
Lu Changyuan finished the sentence: “So we must find a place that can conceal the heavenly secrets within three days.”
This had been his idea from the start.
As long as Xia Lianxue was hidden outside of Heaven’s secrets, the tribulation would not be able to descend.
And coincidentally, Lu Changyuan knew of a place outside Heaven’s Dao, beyond its calculations.
“Young Master?”
Lu Changyuan stretched out his hand and pinched Xia Lianxue’s delicate cheek hard: “Next time, with something like this, you must tell me beforehand. Understand?”
Xia Lianxue’s eyes widened. She clung tightly to Lu Changyuan: “Young Master, what are you going to do?”
Lu Changyuan smiled faintly, holding Xia Lianxue’s hand, standing before that figure in red: “Take her to Heavenly Mountain.”
Heavenly Mountain had once been the place where Daoist Chang’an cultivated in seclusion. There, Heaven’s Dao was cut off, detached from the world. Now it was the secluded residence of the White Domain Dao Sect’s master.
The sharpest sword in the world trembled. She looked at Lu Changyuan, unable even to speak.
Lu Changyuan repeated: “Take her to Heavenly Mountain. Consider it doing me a favor.”
Jiang Jiayi took a deep breath, looking at that face that was six-tenths familiar. She forcefully suppressed her quaking sword-heart: “Fine. But I cannot return in three days. At least five days.”
Jade Palace was tens of millions of li away from Heavenly Mountain. Even if Jiang Jiayi traveled at full speed, there was no way she could reach it within three days.
Lu Changyuan said calmly: “The rest of the time, I will hold them off. Just make sure you get her to Heavenly Mountain. I will catch up quickly.”
Xia Lianxue’s black-and-white eyes were filled with disbelief: “Young Master!?”
“No matter. It’s just tribulation lightning. Holding out for two days is not a problem.”
If the little fairy was still the naive Xia Lianxue of before, she would have believed him. But the Xia Lianxue of today was experienced and knowledgeable. How could she not know the state Lu Changyuan was in?
Not even at the Fifth Realm, not even considered to have entered the Dao—how could such a Lu Changyuan withstand tribulation lightning?
Lu Changyuan suddenly laughed: “You don’t believe me?”
Xia Lianxue faltered: “No... I... Young Master, that...”
She stammered, unable to form a complete sentence for a long time.
“When have I ever lied to you?”
“Young Master has never lied to me.”
“I cannot completely dispel the tribulation. But buying you time is no problem.” Lu Changyuan narrowed his eyes, looking at the lightning in the heavens, his tone calm and light: “Sleep well. When you wake, I will already be there.”
Lu Changyuan suddenly extended his finger, pressing it against the space between Xia Lianxue’s brows. She had already lost Drunken Red Luan and had yet to recover, and after dueling Ancestor Red Luan, she was now extremely weak. Added to the fact that this was Lu Changyuan, naturally she fainted.
Jiang Jiayi nodded, as if wanting to say more, but in the end only said: “You... take care of yourself.”
Lu Changyuan smiled: “Once you arrive at Heavenly Mountain, the tribulation will stop. Then I will come find you. At most one month, and I will reach Heavenly Mountain.”
Jiang Jiayi’s voice was soft yet resolute: “If you do not return to Heavenly Mountain in one month, I will personally come to seize you, from the heavens above to the underworld below.”
She had many questions for Lu Changyuan, but she knew this was an urgent moment.
“As you wish. You should go.”
The phantom looked one last time at Lu Changyuan, asking: “How certain are you?”
Seeing that Lu Changyuan did not answer, she slowly dispersed, returning into the anklet.
The figure in red soared into the sky, transforming into a streak of light disappearing over the horizon.
The lightning above grew even redder, as if dyeing the entire Jade Palace blood-red.
The wind stirred Lu Changyuan’s bloodstained dark robe.
He sat cross-legged in the air, facing the heavenly tribulation, and said: “As long as I am alive, it is a hundred percent.”
Crack.
A crisp shattering sound rang out, heard throughout the entire Jade Palace.
Something had broken.
…..
Heavenly Mountain.
At the summit of the Ninefold Heavenly Palace.
In the distant sky, the heavens cracked like shattered glass, finally torn open completely. Billowing demonic qi crawled out from within, about to descend.
The three-foot-six-inch-long sword trembled violently.
The White Domain Dao Sect’s master rose, gripping her sword tightly, speaking plainly: “Blood lightning?”
She gazed into the distance, but could not see through the veil of mist. Nor did she have time to look longer.
Something was trying to descend into the mortal world.
So the Dao Sect master raised her suspended sword toward the rift: “Trying to take advantage of the tribulation to descend? Since when did you also enjoy grasping such scraps of opportunity? Did you not suffer enough from the lesson my master gave you back then? Do you wish to taste my sword now?”
The sword reversed. A complex sword formation rose from the earth.
Then came a crisp rebuke.
“Get back!”